Strike one peaks at 66dB

Mar 01, 2008,10:04 AM
 

The meter is very helpful for setting up your home theater ... everyone should have one ;-)

Seriously it provides an absolute check on how loud these things are. The scale in this question is centered on 70dB and the peaks are 4dB down i.e. 66dB.

In practice the tone is so distinct that you hear it in even quite noisy settings such as a car at 100kph.

I've not heard other sonneries but I would also be conscious that you can make them sound louder or quieter based on the surface they are placed on, a wood surface is quite good being n ot too sound absorbent, wheras paper (or flesh) is quite the opposite

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So close, and yet so silent (Strike 1)

 
 By: aaronm : February 26th, 2008-09:57
I was in New York city this past weekend, and stopped in the Chopard Boutique as I was passing by. It is much larger and nicer than the old one, and dead empty due to the nasty weather. I looked around, and sitting right there, in the case, was a Strike O... 

The sound of the strike one

 
 By: Folkfreak : February 26th, 2008-20:07
Apologies for the lousy video quality (and the strange background noise comes from the camera). The Sound Level Meter is peaking at 66dB, so not loud but distinctive!

Trying to post the video again

 
 By: Folkfreak : February 26th, 2008-22:17
Apologies but I could not work out how to post video directly, but I did post it on YouTube - hope this works (apologies if I am breaking any rules, lots of other great sonneries out on YouTube by the way)

Thanks Folkfreak for the filmlet...

 
 By: Kong : March 1st, 2008-09:28
Good idea to have a Sound Level Meter around. Now, why are you having a sound-level meter? What's the read-out? Have you any reference with other repeaters? Kong

Strike one peaks at 66dB

 
 By: Folkfreak : March 1st, 2008-10:04